Morgan Portrait

ID: 1281
This file appears in: John Hunt Morgan Escape Route

This is a portrait of John Hunt Morgan, George B. Eastin, and Thomas Hines, with whom he escaped from prison.
Photo courtesy of the University of Kentucky.

This file appears in: John Hunt Morgan Escape Route

By Becky Riddle
Historical marker #2394 in Boone County commemorates a daring prison escape made by Confederate cavalryman John Hunt Morgan. In November 1863, Morgan escaped from the Ohio State Penitentiary and…